PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari yesterday explained why his administration is still holding the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col Sambo Dasuki (retd) and leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kalu despite being granted bail by relevant courts.
He said the security agencies are still holding the duo because their offences are serious and they could jump bail.
The President who gave the explanation during his first presidential media chat aired live on Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), said the law would take its course with regards to both of them.
He regretted that the IPOB leader who had both Nigerian and British passports entered the country and could broadcast against his nation. His words: “The one they are calling Kanu, do you know he has two passports? One Nigerian, one British and he came to this country without tendering any? He came into this country with sophisticated equipment and he was broadcasting against his country.
“The group says they are marginalsing Biafrans but they have not defined the extent of marginalisation and those who are marginalising them”.
The President dismissed insinuations that his administration has marginalised the South-East and explained that his actions are usually guided by the Constitution.
He observed that some of the critical positions in his government including the Ministry of State for Petroleum, Ministries of Science and Technology, Labour and Employment, CBN governor, among others are being occupied by the Igbo and wondered why some say he is marginalising them.
On Dasuki, he regretted that the former NSA could be involved in frittering away monumental resources belonging to the country when so many Nigerians are dying in the Internally Displaced (IDP) camps in various parts of the country.
The President said that his administration would not tolerate the wastage of resources belonging to the people.
He said that the Federal Government would do everything to ensure justice for both the IPOB leader and former NSA, but maintained that they have not been released because both of them have the tendency to jump bail.
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